I took the picture below earlier tonight. Its not one of my more spectacular efforts at first glance.
...but it is actually a (very cruddy) picture of the International Space Station, which was visible tonight in the skies above Glendale from 5:21-5:27pm. I was unsure how visible it would be, but the dot of the space station was quite bright and I was able to easily track it as it swiftly moved across the sky, rising above Burbank and ultimately disappearing beyond Eagle Rock.
If you haven't been to the DWP Festival of Lights already, you are out of luck, as the event is now open to (hellish) vehicular traffic. I walked the festival last week with my parents, but after hiking tonight I thought it might be fun to drive through the festival with the top down on my Miata. After one look at the hundreds of cars waiting to enter the event at 9:30, I decided to save my sanity (and clutch) by heading home.
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Come down and we'll get dinner and then go see the spectacular Christmas lights in Torrance and El Segundo.
I did a search on flickr for space station photos and many of them are great...showing a long white streak crossing the sky.
The ISS link in the post goes to a site where people have taken photos of the ISS through telescopes and can actually see the shape and detail:
http://www.iss-tracking.de/images/stationpic.html
If you exit the 134 at Forest Lawn and go over the hill at travel town you can bypass all the traffic on the way to the merry-go-round lot.
That's what I did once I remembered the festival, it's just far less direct than Los Feliz Blvd from where I am. It cost me a lot of time since I try to be good about the 25mph speed limit in the park.
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